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A court order issued this week by the federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s upcoming trial on mishandling classified documents has observers worried that the former President won't be going to trial anytime soon. Legal experts say U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's order badly misinterprets the law and facts of the case.

One of those legal experts is former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman, who in an op-ed published Thursday contends that her latest order confirms she is "running interference for the former president who put her on the bench."

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will reportedly request a summer trial date for her election conspiracy case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants.

Two sources familiar with Willis' decision told CNN she was expected to take the request to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.

Donald Trump's lawyers have been accused of a lot of "head-scratching" legal filings as they seek to keep the former president out of criminal trouble — and a Washington Post columnist tore into them Thursday.

Recently, in an effort to argue he should be covered by presidential immunity, Trump's lawyers cited the past words of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a U.S. Supreme Court filing that highlights the dangers of presidents being subject to criminal prosecution or civil actions.

Florida District Court Judge Aileen Cannon has been drawing the bad kind of attention since entering the judicial spotlight — and now it seems staffers are putting their own resumes first.

AboveTheLaw co-founder David Lat wrote Thursday on his Substack that two of her clerks recently resigned. Clerks typically focus on writing and research for the judge.

Two law professors with a long history of presenting "indefensible" theories to support former President Donald Trump are asking permission to argue to Judge Aileen Cannon that special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case is unconstitutional, court records show.

Seth Barrett Tillman, a constitutional law professor who teaches in Ireland, and Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law Houston, filed Thursday a request for permission to submit an amicus brief they say will prove Smith's case is unconstitutional.

The Republican Study Committee has released its proposed 2025 budget which would take an ax to major elements of the social safety net, healthcare system, and civil rights, while affecting nearly every American, either now or in the future.

Calling it "Fiscal Sanity to Save America," the budget proposal from the far-right MAGA-affiliated group of about 170 House Republicans would effectively create a national abortion ban and ban on in-vitro fertilization procedures (IVF) by creating legal protections for human embryos starting at “the moment of fertilization.” It mentions the word "abortion" 77 times.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk accused liberals of hunting conservatives down "in the streets" after Kyle Rittenhouse was booed off stage at an event at the University of Memphis.

On his Thursday podcast, Kirk reacted to the protest against Rittenhouse at Wednesday's Turning Point event.

Former President Donald Trump this week asked Americans if they were better off today than they were four years ago -- and now President Joe Biden is working to make him regret floating that particular question.

At this time four years ago, the American economy was shedding millions of jobs, businesses and schools were being shuttered, and thousands of Americans were dying every day from a virus that Trump claimed was simply going to "disappear" as soon as the weather started warming up.

House Republicans held yet another impeachment inquiry hearing this week that underwhelmed many observers, with even some conservatives who want to impeach President Joe Biden describing it as a massive flop.

However, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) is now trying to keep the inquiry alive by demanding testimony from President Joe Biden himself, despite the fact that the inquiry has yet to produce any evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor committed by the president.

Kyle Rittenhouse, who rose to notoriety after killing two people and wounding a third with his AR-15 during riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the summer of 2020, fled the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis Wednesday as Black Lives Matter protesters stormed the event.

Video shows Rittenhouse, 21, rushing off the stage after protesters, some of whom were carrying signs that read “put Rittenhouse behind bars not a podium” and “no killers on my campus," started booing loudly, The New York Post reported.

During a speech at a fundraiser in Dallas, President Joe Biden took a shot at Donald Trump's legal headaches — specifically the difficulty he's having obtaining the bond to allow him to appeal a civil judgment amounting to $454 million.

Trump must pay the full bond amount to delay collection while he appeals the a $355 million judgment against him after a judge determined he participated in business and tax fraud by overvaluing his assets to receive more favorable bank loans. After interest, the amount of the damages has already risen to $464 million.

Stormy Daniels told "The View" on Thursday supporters of Donald Trump's are becoming more violent and threatening as his hush money trial nears.

"It's the weirdest thing to be in this situation where time is kind of not real, and the sad part about it, or the tricky part, is that I had started to do really well. Things had gotten quiet," she said about her life.

CNN's Jim Acosta said on Thursday that New York Attorney General Letitia James really appears to have former President Donald Trump in a vise as she presses ahead with making him pay a massive $454 million-plus civil fraud verdict.

The CNN host began the segment by discussing what would happen should Trump not be able to post bond by the Monday deadline.